Unfortunately it's a repeat of the Windows Mobile/CE debacle, the enthusiast crowd that makes your product acceptable to the general computing public is treated with apathy bordering on hostility. They shipped a Windows NT-based system that cannot run win32 applications due to a marketing decision and expected it to be sung with high praises. Compare this with Google Chromebook, while Google is focusing on users using it with the ChromeOS (and no local storage), they are not stopping anyone from using it how they choose. One of the positive outcomes of the earlier experience was XDA, and it's members are at it again: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1288